books.google.com - Joseph Banks is one of the most significant figures of the English Enlightenment. This book attempts to place his work in promoting 'imperial science' in the context of the consolidation of the British State during a time of extraordinary upheaval. The American, French and Industrial Revolutions unleashed...https://books.google.com/books/about/Science_in_the_Service_of_Empire.html?id=vk_BKeNonnMC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareScience in the Service of Empire